Railway construction.



PAIBNTED APR. 12, 1904.

L. & M. J. BEEZER. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1903.

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RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,814, dated April 12, 1904.

Application iiled July 6, 1903. Serial No. 164,269. (No model.)

To all whom, it Tit/ty concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS BEEZER and MICHAEL J. BEEZER, citizens of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered new and useful Improvements in Railway Construction, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying' drawings, which make part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view of our invention, a central portion being removed. Fig. 2 is a cross-section oi' the tie, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal Section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Our invention relates to railway appliances, and more particularly to railway-ties and railfastening devices.

It is the object of our invention to provide a substitute for the common wooden ties', which owing' to the growing scarcity of suitable wood and their increasing cost must give way to a superior and permanent article. l/Ve have devised a tie which is not only cheaper, by electing a great saving in maintenance, but one which, with its rail connections,is practically indestructible. Our tie being thoroughly waterprooi'ed will not be aected by frost, and the parts are so strongly united that they will not become broken or separated. IVe also give the rails a suitable elastic bed, which not only makes the train less noisy and less injurious tothe rolling-stock, but also prevents to a large degree the pounding action of the car-wheels from being transmitted so suddenly to the concrete portion of the ties, the result being that the ties will not be cracked or broken.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the tie as a whole, having beveled sides and ends, as shown in Figs. l and 2, which retain the tie more securely in the ballast. The corners oi' the tie are rounded, since angular corners are liable to be broken in ballasting. The bodies of the ties are made of slag-cement concrete or other plastic material which will set or become hard and have embedded therein when formed a steel channel-plate B, having the bottom and the downwardly-extending sides or iianges b. The plate has numerous holes b2, which allow the concrete to pass through, so as to tie or bind the tie into a more solid and more homogeneous mass than would bethe case ii' the concrete were unconnected along the entire surface oi' an/,unperi'orated plate. The plate B extends nearly the whole length ot' the tie.

Beneath each rail and resting in a recess C in the tie are layers F oi compressed cork or wood fiber covered by steel cap-plates G, having flanged edges g, bent so as to protect the edges of the layers F. The recess C, like the iiange g, prevents the cork from squeezing' out.

The rails E lie directly on the cap-plates Gr andare held in place thereon by bolts H, whose heads L/ are beneath the portion Z) of the channel-plate B. The bolts are arranged in pairs, between whose upper ends the rails lie. Clips I are strung on the bolts, and each has one end lying on the adjacent rail-flange. The clips have their ends nearest the rail-Hanges so thinned that said ends will not touch the cap-plate when the nuts /L are turned down hard upon the clips. Lead washers K are interposed between the bolt-heads /L' and the said portion of the channel-plate B.

rIhe concrete we prefer touse is made of slag and cement; but we do not desire to be limited to this composition, as other plastic hardening compositions may be used.

Having described our invention, we claim- 1. In railway construction, a tie composed of plastic material, a metal plate embedded therein, layers of compressed elastic wood on the tie, flanged cap-plates on the said layers, rails on the cap-plates, bolts held in the tie by the metal plate, clips strung on the bolts and overlapping the rail-flanges, and means for holding the clips securely in place.

2. In railway construction, a tie composed of plastic material, a metal plate embedded therein, layers of compressed elastic wood on the tie, tlanged cap-plates on said layers, rails on the cap-plates, bolts having heads beneath the metal plate, lead washers between the bolt-heads and the rnetal plate, and means on Signed at Pittsburg this 1st day of July, the bolts for fastening the rails securely in 1903.

Place# LOUIS BEEZER 3. 1n railway construction, a plastic mate- 5 rial, a metal plate embedded therein, rail-se- MICHAEL J BEEZER' curing bolts having their heads beneath the Witnesses: said plate, and a lead Washer between the bolt- F. N. BARBER, head and the plate. A. M. STEEN. 

